Feminist anti-war writing; radical feminist critique of the U.S. war in Afghanistan; post-September 11 militarism; women’s rights as wartime propaganda; anti-imperialist and anti-militarist activism; Nikki Craft’s public anti-war record.

This item documents Nikki Craft’s November 8, 2001 article “A Call on Feminists to Protest the War Against Afghanistan,” Part I, published on Craft’s No Status Quo / Always Causing Legal Unrest anti-war pages in response to the U.S. war in Afghanistan after September 11, 2001. The article is headed by the line “Rape and Violence Against Women Have Always Been Terrorism: Are We So Keen To Go to War for All Women?” and argues that the suffering of Afghan women was being invoked selectively as a public-relations justification for war rather than treated as a genuine commitment to women’s liberation.

Craft challenges liberal and mainstream feminist support for the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan, criticizes the use of women’s oppression as wartime propaganda, and places the violence against Afghan women within a global pattern of male domination, militarism, capitalism, fundamentalism, prostitution, sweatshop labor, rape, and imperial violence. The article asks why governments that ignored women’s subordination before the war suddenly presented themselves as defenders of Afghan women once war became politically useful.

The preserved web material includes the article text, its original visual layout, an image of Elizabeth Matz’s “A Woman’s Land: Her Own Body” poster, distribution notes, acknowledgments, footnotes, links to related anti-war pages, and references including Tim Wise, American Enterprise Institute / C-SPAN, Kim Ghattas, and related feminist anti-war material. It is part of Craft’s longer public record of opposing U.S. wars and military interventions, including interventions she understands as driven by the military-industrial complex, oil, territory, and geopolitical power rather than humanitarian concern.

Wikipedia Documentation Note

This item is being preserved on the Internet Archive in part to document that the article exists and remains attributable, citable, and publicly inspectable as part of Nikki Craft’s feminist, anti-war, and anti-imperialist record. A link or citation to this article was removed or omitted from the English Wikipedia article on Nikki Craft. The archival purpose of this upload is to preserve the source trail and allow readers to examine the article directly.

This note does not require a claim about any individual editor’s motive. The evidentiary point is narrower and stronger: a source documenting Craft’s anti-war writing was removed or minimized in the Wikipedia context, and this Internet Archive item preserves the article and its citation value for future researchers.

Part of the Nikki Craft Archival Project.

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Source: No Status Quo / Always Causing Legal Unrest (ACLU) anti-war pages